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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

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The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Crooks target US universities with malware used by nation-state actors

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Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. ‘This campaign delivered over 150,000 messages to over 60 different industries, with 45% focused on education, colleges, and universities,” Proofpoint concluded. Pierluigi Paganini.

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FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack

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A joint security advisory published by The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data.

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Crooks target US universities with malware used by nation-state actors

Security Affairs

Hupigon is a remote access Trojan (RAT) that has been active since at least 2006, it was first detected by FireEye in 2010. ‘This campaign delivered over 150,000 messages to over 60 different industries, with 45% focused on education, colleges, and universities,” Proofpoint concluded. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Nation-state actors target critical sectors by exploiting the CVE-2021-40539 flaw

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During that window, the actor successfully compromised at least nine global entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy and education industries.” The APT group has been active since 2010, targeted organizations worldwide, including U.S. Subsequently, exploitation attempts began on Sept. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Previously undocumented Aoqin Dragon APT targets entities in Southeast Asia and Australia

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SentinelOne documented a series of attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities in Southeast Asia and Australia carried out by a previously undocumented Chinese-speaking APT tracked as Aoqin Dragon. Between 2012 and 2015, the Aoqin Dragon actors heavily relied on exploits for CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 vulnerabilities.

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FBI and DHS CISA issue alerts on e-skimming attacks

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Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen groups at least since 2010. . Millions of Magecart instances were detected over time, security experts discovered tens of software skimming scripts. Below the list of recommendations provided by the FBI: Update and patch all systems with the latest security software.

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